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{% block title %}Introduction{% endblock %}
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<h2>Welcome</h2>
<h4>What is determine</h4>
<p>A website where traffic signal timing diagrams can be produced.</p> 
<p><i><b>Generate traffic signal timing diagrams to determine green running times.</b></i></p>

<h4>Examples</h4>
<p>Sometimes a picture (or even a diagram) is worth a thousand words, below a few example reports (pdf files) :-</p>
<ul>
<li><a href=http://www.determine.org.uk/examples/simple-site.pdf>Very basic example site - full report;</a></li>
<li>Complex site - normal report.</li>
</ul>

<h4>How</h4>
<p>By entering basic detail of a traffic signal site. Such as :-</p>
<ul>
<li>Site Address (used in the title of the diagrams);</li>
<li>Phases;</li>
<li>Stage names and phases in stages;</li>
<li>Intergreens;</li>
<li>Phase delays (only phase delay leaving at this point);</li>
<li>Diagrams</li>
</ul>
<p>Once all details of the site have been entered a report can be generated.</p>
<h4>What Kind of Reports are produced</h4>
<p>The report is centered around the one or more diagrams requested. At the moment the entering of a required diagram is simplistic. The cycle time is entered followed by a number of forced stage movements  to occur during the cycle. A minimum cycle time can be generated by using a cycle time of zero, together with the stage moves in order.<p>
<p>There are three type of reports that can be generated:-</p>
<ul>
<li>Simple - Just the diagrams are produced.</li>
<li>Normal - The diagrams, followed by details of the site configuration. </li>
<li>Full - The diagrams, followed by details of the site configuration, followed by the report in xml format. The xml format report details for each diagram, for each second, the status of each phase in detail. </li>
</ul>

<h4>Where</h4>

<p>The site is hosted at <a href=http://www.determine.org.uk>www.determine.org.uk</a> </p>
<p>The code is available at <a href=http://code.google.com/p/determine/>http://code.google.com/p/determine/</a>. The code is released under <a href=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>GNU General Public License v2.0</a>.</p>

<h4>How Much</h4>
<p>There is no cost to use determine.org.uk. The software code is free, released under GNU General Public License v2.0.  For a small fee determine can be set-up as a separate private website running the same detemine code but with customized logos, headers and footers. Use the contacts link for more details. </p>

<h4>Go</h4>
<p>Start generating a report by configuring a <a href="./new-site">new site</a></p>
<p>Or look at the <a href="/how-to">Screen-cast and How-to</a>.</p>
{% if latestSites  %}
  <h3>Latest Sites</h3>
  <p>The last five sites created:-</p>
  <ul>
  {% for site in latestSites  %}						
    <li><a href={{site.get_absolute_url_report}}>{{site.title}}, entered on {{site.publish_date|date:"D d M Y" }}</a></li>
  {% endfor %}
  <ul>
{% endif %}
<p></p>
{% endblock %}
